Grenada Revolution News Today

As rekindling old friendships go, my best of late was reconnecting with my lifelong journalist colleague, Jorge Luna Mendoza...

Two months ago, the Centre for Law and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern University School of Law invited me to comment on Dr Godfrey Vincents book, Rebels at the Gates

Two months ago, the Centre for Law and Race (CLEAR) at Northeastern University School of Law invited me to comment on Dr Godfrey Vincent’s book, Rebels at the Gates: The

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979-83 is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Bishop mobilized working people to take political power in a popular revolution in 1979 on this small Caribbean island, a majority Black and English-speaking. Four years later, a Stalinist-inspired coup led by Bernard Coard murdered Bishop and other leaders of the revolution, and turned its guns on the people. The overthrow of the

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The nation of Grenada will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the tragic assassination of its revolutionary hero, Maurice Bishop, on Oct. 19. The government has declared the date a public holiday now known as National Heroes Day.

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Here is a call for papers for a one-day symposium—co-organized by Black Cultural Archives and the British Library—for academics, creatives, activists, and community-based researchers to share research and reflections on the Grenada Revolution. “Grenada, 1973-1983: Beginnings of a Revolution, Invasion and After” will take place at the British Library (London) on Friday, October 27, 2023.…

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal, by Joan Flores-Villalobos, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in January 2023. The author will give a virtual talk hosted by the Levan Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California on Monday, May 8, 2023, at 12:00pm (PT). To attend…

The Prime Minister of Grenada and the Grenadines, Hon. Dickon Mitchell, will address the State of the Black World Conference slated for Baltimore, MD from April 19-23. PM Mitchell will make a Statement in the Opening Session of the Pan African Institute and will deliver a Tribute to Maurice Bishop…